WebAPI application working as a backend in Teashop application environment.

• .NET Core 3.1 - base software framework
• ASP.NET Core - base backend framework
• Entity Framework Core - ORM framework
• MediatR - mediator implementation library
• FluentAssertions - validation library
• xUnit - testing library
• Moq - mocking library for testing
• FluentAssertions - additional assertion methods for testing
• Docker - containerization

This application is a part of Teashop application environment. To see the details of setting up the entire environment, go to Teashop Ops repository.

The application requires a connection to SQL Express database. In order to make the application run correctly, you need to provide a connection string in appsettings.json.

For the easiest way of running the application, it is advised to open it in Visual Studio and run using its built-in launcher.

If you need to run it using command line, you can use the following .NET Core CLI commands in project directory:

dotnet restore
dotnet publish
cd Teashop.Backend\bin\Debug\netcoreapp3.1\publish
dotnet Teashop.Backend.dll

The application will run on: http://localhost:5000

To setup the application in docker container, first build the container image by running the following command in project directory:

docker build -t teashop_backend .

Then to run the container:

docker run -p 5000:80 teashop_backend

• The application's architecture is mostly based on ideas and mechanisms from Clean Architecture Solution Template repository: https://github.com/jasontaylordev/CleanArchitecture. It follows Clean Architecture principles with Command and Query Responsibility Segregation. I strongly recommend watching an awesome presentation by Jason Taylor, the author of the repository, explaining ideas behind it in detail.